Not everyone has several thousand of dollars to spend on such equipment, but all of us have dreamed of someday making a good enough living we could afford such an item or two or three. What if someone could come up with a Business Plan that would allow people like you and I to use this equipment to better the worlds curing of Diseases faster. I thought I was dreaming when I first started on this path, but the more I keep thinking about it the more I beleive I can make it work. I currently have a relationship going with a local Medical college and a few professors are my drinking buddies down at the local pub. Our conversation is that they need a way to find cures faster, process more clincal lab trials faster and more efficiently.

Faster more powerful kinda sounds like Mitro's little one on the way! j/k

Actually speaking seriousness here, I write Grants for a living on the side, it does not make me a lot of money but it puts me in the right position with politicians and those who are looking for cures to diseases like the up and coming bird flu virus. By dwelling on computers and there ability to find answers faster instead of test tubes and accidental vial contamination. Solutions being found on the computer analysis instead of real life becomes more feasible. This due to the fact that one problem can be attacked by 100 computers doing 10,000 test tube tests per minute handled by just one computer operator. This instead of Lab Technicians who perform tests day after day to achieve just 8 trials a day maybe. Plus each Lab Technician gets paid some amazing fee of $45,000 plus benefits. Now multiply that by the number of 1,000,000 tests that need to be completed before an FDA ruling can be garnered and you get Time and Expense. This is why Drugs for cures cost so much money.

Take a Business Plan dressed up to look good with detail in every facet and then offer this plan to the medical community/Politicians/Grant Funders and retreive funds to operate a Data Mining & Research operation from your own small not for profit business/ foundation operation. You get to sit in front of your own system like we do everyday pushing our machines to the maximum and watching our output and adjusting as needed. Most of us would sit here 14 hours a day if you let us.

Since I brought up the BX600 and I know I can't afford it but I wondered if I could encourage thought from others on this idea? Grid Computing where by you never actually own the system you have crunching data can be accomplished with Sun Microsystems and others. I sit here and teleport my directives to a Grid of computers I have working for a certain project all for the good of mankind. I will not own my computers as they would outdate themselves as soon as they would arrive in crates to be assembled. But If I leased them under a Grid contract then the ownership of the systems would increase in efficiency as newer technology would come out. Instead of dishing out $100,000 for a few systems I could actually get 36 months of Grid Computing contracts, 36 months of living expenses. With this concept I would never have to rewire my house or add additional cooling because the computers are not in my house they are at whomever's the holder is of the contract for the Grid Computing.

I ramble when I dream up such hair brain idea's but now some of you can see where I have been thinking and yes if I have been quiet lately now you know where my thoughts have been.

As I have been told most Grid Computer contracting companies will not contract out to an individual so you must become an incorporated entity. This of course is the cheapest way to go, if anyone has a better way please advise?

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I suggest clicking on the related links section and slide down to the 3D Animation, awesome presentation even if you can't afford it.